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Thursday, 28 February 2013

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By MARIA CHENG

Mar. 01, 2013 - 07:00AM JST

FILE - In this April 16, 2011 file photo, Wakana Nemoto, 3, standing next to her mother Naoko, receives a radiation exposure screening outside an evacuation center in Fukushima, northeastern Japan. People exposed to the highest doses of radiation during the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in 2011 may have a slightly higher risk of cancer that is so small it probably won’t even be detectable, according to a new report from the World Health Organization released on Thursday Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

LONDON —

Two years after Japan’s nuclear plant disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of radiation face an increased cancer risk so small it probably won’t be detectable.
In fact, experts calculated that increase at about 1 extra percentage point added to a Japanese infant’s lifetime cancer risk.
“The additional risk is quite small and will probably be hidden by the noise of other (cancer) risks like people’s lifestyle choices and statistical fluctuations,” said Richard Wakeford of the University of Manchester, one of the authors of the report. “It’s more important not to start smoking than having been in Fukushima.”

Monday, 25 February 2013

Steven Starr, Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science
Program at the University of Missouri/Senior Scientist at
Physicians for Social Responsibility: The Japanese basically
lied about what happened with the reactors for months. They said they were
trying to prevent a meltdown, when in fact they knew within the first couple of
days Reactors 1, 2, and 3 at Fukushima Daiichi had melted down, and they
actually melted through the steel containment vessels.

So there was a worst case scenario that they were trying to hide, they even
knew that at that time enormous amounts of radiation were released over Japan
and some of it even went over Tokyo [...]

The melted core cracked the containment vessel, there really is no
containment. So as soon as they pump the water in it leaks out again.

According to freelance journalist Tanaka, Tepco’s former chairman Katsumata will not be prosecuted due to the lack of evidence.Plaintiffs from Fukushima surrounded public prosecutors office and Tepco and demanded Tepco to surrender.

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

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19, 2013 - 04:10PM JST ( 27 )
TOKYO —
The Environment Ministry has announced that it will recommend the public do not venture outside unless necessary on days on which fine particulate air pollution is high.

Particulate air pollution is believed to be coming from China to Japan. The smog has been dubbed PM2.5 in Japan. These particles, which are smaller than 2.5 micrometers in size, tend to penetrate into the lungs and the circulatory system. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that PM2.5 leads to high plaque deposits in arteries, causing vascular inflammation and a hardening of the arteries, which can lead to heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems.

Fuji TV reported Tuesday that the Environment Ministry says it is considering recommending people do not go outside unless necessary when the airborne density exceeds 35 micrograms per cubic liter. It will also recommend avoiding the use of ventilation while at home. Separate recommendations are to be drawn up for those with a history of heart and lung problems.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that fine particulate air pollution causes mortality from cardiopulmonary disease, mortality from cancer of the trachea, bronchus, and lung, and mortality from acute respiratory infections in children under 5 years of age. Researchers suggest that even short-term exposure at elevated concentrations could significantly contribute to heart disease.
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yup.. blame it on China.. nice little scape goat yeah? nothing to do with irradiation in 5-10 years......

DOES THE TERM 'ÍNCINERATING DEBRIS' COME TO MIND?.....

Let;s imagine for the moment that China had no pollution for a second?.... could there possibly be another reason for the situation calling for for the closing of air conditioning and the 'going outside'of citizens in Japan?

How does one call for the populous of a country to remain in doors and yet maintain vital infrastructure in general?

We have seen cities across the globe blanketed with such pollution, yet to ban walking and airconditioning/ ventilation?...... never in my day....

watch this space.....

edit:
now they detect Xenon from North Korea Blast... where was the testing equipment back in 2011?

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Re: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and links

Japan detects xenon in air after N Korean nuclear test

TOKYO — Japanese planes detected a trace amount of xenon-133 during monitoring flights over Japan the day after North Korea carried out its third nuclear test last week, the science ministry said Thursday.

The radioactive material amounting to 1.9 millibecquerels per cubic meter of air was detected from samples collected at an altitude of 300 meters off the coast of Aichi Prefecture in central Japan, Jiji Press reported.

It was the first time Japan had detected xenon-133 since it strengthened radiation monitoring in response to the test on Feb 12, the news agency said. [link to www.japantoday.com] .wow, now they can blame china AND north korea..... damn them.... japan was safe from nucliotides until now.. think of the drama down the track........

... funny they had so much trouble detecting ANYTHING after fuku........

Sunday, 17 February 2013

No ill health effects seen in residents near Fukushima plant yet: researcher

A journalist checks radiation levels at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan, on February 28, 2012AFP

TOKYO —

A Japanese government-backed researcher says no health effects from radiation released by the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have been seen in people living nearby.
The pronouncement by Kazuo Sakai of Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences is the latest by authorities seeking to quell fears over the long-term effects of the disaster.
But it was dismissed by campaign group Greenpeace who said the government should not seek to play down health worries.
“Since the accident in Fukushima, no health effects from radiation have been observed, although we have heard reports some people fell ill due to stress from living as evacuees and due to worries and fears about radiation,” Sakai said.

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Government funded researcher?...... c'mon........

And what is this? MORE EVIDENCE OF GOVERNMENT FUNDED GENOCIDE?

Forget the reseach that 40%-64% of Fukushima children have Thyroid inormalities.....

Saturday, 16 February 2013

Troy Livingston
This is what the government FAILED to tell us about the after-effects from fukushima. they LIED when they told us there would be NO contamination. childhood spontaneous deaths are up 40-60% along the northeast coast of the united states. there are high numbers of senior citizens who are dying suddenly from heart attack(chernobyl heart). the u.s. government committed a heinous crime when it told americans NOT to prepare and protect from the rad-fallout from fukushima. i provided this video to show you the truth

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

A Fukushima prefectural assembly chairman stormed out of a Liberal Democratic
Party meeting on Feb. 15 after the discussion turned toward the possible restart
of idle nuclear reactors in Japan.
"I am walking out if the government plans to restart (nuclear power plants)
without acting responsibly in dealing with the (Fukushima) accident," said Kenji
Saito at an LDP Research Commission on Oil, Resources and Energy meeting in
Tokyo to exchange views on energy policy. "I cannot possibly join such a
discussion."
The meeting was attended by assembly chairs from 13 prefectures that host
nuclear power plants.

Be amazed at the speed at which first breaking news is discussed and dissected.

Discussion is based on fact/ personal opinion and a scouring of the web for Breaking news on your 'doom of choice'.. if one uses their 'brian', they will no doubt be impressed by some of the accuracy of facts and the depth of discussion...

Sunday, 10 February 2013

HEARTWRENCHING…History repeating itself. US Navy sailors now sick from Fukushima and this from the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. These young pilots all go...t sick being some of the first responders to the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. 600 pilots came to help. 600 died. And that was only the beginning…watch the video to learn more.

These young military personnel died for something that was not necessary. If people demanded an end to nuclear power after 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl would not have happened. If people demanded an end to nuclear power after Chernobyl, Fukushima never would have happened.

Now here we sit with Fukushima on our hands, military put in harms way yet again for something that could have been prevented if only we had said no more to nuclear power. Shame on us for not already learning the lesson. So sad.

Now that we are all awake we need to decide what to do with the information we have. Is it time to stop sacrificing military and civilian lives like this?? Are we done with nuclear power yet???

U.S. babies are dying at an increased rate. While the United States spends billions on medical care, as of 2006, the US ranked 28th in the world in infant mortality, more than twice that of the lowest ranked countries. (DHHS, CDC, National Center for Health Statistics. Health United States 2010, Table 20, p. 131, February 2011.)....

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The recent CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report indicates that eight cities in the northwest U.S. (Boise ID, Seattle WA, Portland OR, plus the northern California cities of Santa Cruz, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, and Berkeley) reported the following data on deaths among those younger than one year of age:

... This amounts to an increase of 35% (the total for the entire U.S. rose about 2.3%), and is statistically significant. ...Spewing from the Fukushima reactor are radioactive isotopes including those of iodine (I-131), strontium (Sr-90) and cesium (Cs-134 and Cs-137) all of which are taken up in food and water. Iodine is concentrated in the thyroid, Sr-90 in bones and teeth and Cs-134 and Cs-137 in soft tissues, including the heart. The unborn and babies are more vulnerable because the cells are rapidly dividing and the delivered dose is proportionally larger than that delivered to an adult.

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As of June 5, 2011, The Japan Times reported that radiation in the No. 1 plant was measured at 4,000 milliseverts per hour. To put that in perspective, a worker would receive a maximal “permissible” dose in 4 minutes. In addition there are over 40,000 tons of radioactive water under that reactor with more radioactivity escaping into the air and sea. Fuel rods are believed to have melted and sunk to the bottom of reactors 1, 2, and 3.

The operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has admitted dislodging broken equipment weighing 1.5 tons and sending it falling further into a pool where fragile nuclear fuel rods lie.
The debris is part of a heavy-duty hoist formerly used to move fuel assemblies within the No. 3 reactor building. The hoist collapsed into the pool after a hydrogen explosion in March 2011.
Until now, it lay only partially submerged and was believed to have done little damage to the fuel rods beneath.

But on Feb. 7, Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials said work a day earlier to shift an unrelated steel frame nearby caused “vibrations” which dislodged the hoist. It fell, disappearing beneath the water surface.

TEPCO now plans to drop a video camera into the pool to check whether the hoist has smashed fuel rods below. Officials say 566 fuel assemblies are currently lying in the pool at the No. 3 reactor building.

They insisted there has been no significant change in radioactive concentrations measured in the pool and in the atmosphere since before the latest incident.

However, as reported by Fukushima diary, there has been a significant change in the radiation data, confirming that there may be new damage to the spent fuel- this is stuff that should not be jolted and is precision placed to keep them at certain intervals to moderate the temperature.

Also, the spent fuel pool is meant to be encapsulated by lead and steel to curb the release of radiactivity into the environment.

10 million Bq still reported per hour from the destroyed plant.

Part of the fallen fuel hoist, an electric motor, is seen in the spent-fuel pool at the No. 3 reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. (Provided by Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

Decommissioning work hands-off （ but not ）, rather than leave it to usWe do decommissioning work want to increase convergence workers more and more and it isEveryone how I could get this nuclear waste incinerators with local people or, Really think. 」

Tepco has estimated the total nuclear damage compensation to be 2.5
trillion yen and has been requesting the financial support from the
Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund based on the revised Special
Business Plan approved on May 9, 2012.
However, after deciding the compensation standard of lands or houses,
adding real estate and postponing the compensation term for spontaneous
evacuees and harmful rumor of agricultural products, the estimated
compensation amount increased to be 3.2 trillion yen.
On 12/27/2012, Tepco requested the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund for 697 billion yen of the additional financial support.
Related article..[Bloomberg] Tepco Sued by U.S. Sailors Exposed to Radiation [Link]

<snip>Re: Fukushima and the children... video... very sad...... we'll be seeing more of this.....

its
hard to tell how much radiation people are ingesting on a daily basis
through food and drinks, because they set a "safety limit" and if the
food is below that, it is considered safe to eat. if the safety limit is
100bq/kg, and everything you eat has 99bq/kg, isn't that still very
dangerous? and even with these safety limits in effect, stuff still
slips through all the time, probably more than is reported. i see
vegetables from fukushima for sale all the time, like potato and
cucumber. if there is radiation in the water, you cook with it, drink
it, bathe in it, wash your clothes in it. most japanese dry their
clothes outdoors on a veranda. they do not do thyroid tests or
anything like that for children outside of fukushima. commercial geiger
counters are limited to certain types and brands now. the government and
tepco absolutely do withhold information, and not only that but many
schools are openly serving fukushima vegetables in their school lunches,
and you do not have a choice of eating it. and the saddest part?
almost everyone doesn't care anymore. nobody tries to change anything
for the most part, they talk amongst themselves, but many times, if you
bring something up you are called a "fear mongorer" because you are
talking about something that people would rather not think about. i
recently gave birth to a baby girl in November, and spent my entire
pregnancy here in tokyo (and several years before that including 3/11
and all of the time since) and spent the better part of my pregnancy
worrying that she would have some kind of defect. she didn't, at least
not any that are visible, but it's likely that her dna is mutated in
some way, along with my 3 year old son (he was just turning 1 when the
disaster occurred). but one day, when they are much older, and have
family's of their own, if they marry with other japanese people in the
area, it's very likely that their children will have some sort of
mutation, which makes me very sad.

i guess that what im getting
at is that we wont start seeing the truly devastating effects until
several years later. the japanese government has doomed its own
citizens. but the japanese have this sort of attitude, where they say
"shoganai" (nothing you can do) to things like this. its a very complex
situation.

<owned snip> Re: Fukushima and the children... video... very sad...... we'll be seeing more of this.....

its
hard to tell how much radiation people are ingesting on a daily basis
through food and drinks, because they set a "safety limit" and if the
food is below that, it is considered safe to eat. if the safety limit is
100bq/kg, and everything you eat has 99bq/kg, isn't that still very
dangerous? and even with these safety limits in effect, stuff still
slips through all the time, probably more than is reported. i see
vegetables from fukushima for sale all the time, like potato and
cucumber. if there is radiation in the water, you cook with it, drink
it, bathe in it, wash your clothes in it. most japanese dry their
clothes outdoors on a veranda.
they do not do thyroid tests or
anything like that for children outside of fukushima. commercial geiger
counters are limited to certain types and brands now. the government and
tepco absolutely do withhold information, and not only that but many
schools are openly serving fukushima vegetables in their school lunches,
and you do not have a choice of eating it.
and the saddest part?
almost everyone doesn't care anymore. nobody tries to change anything
for the most part, they talk amongst themselves, but many times, if you
bring something up you are called a "fear mongorer" because you are
talking about something that people would rather not think about.
i
recently gave birth to a baby girl in November, and spent my entire
pregnancy here in tokyo (and several years before that including 3/11
and all of the time since) and spent the better part of my pregnancy
worrying that she would have some kind of defect. she didn't, at least
not any that are visible, but it's likely that her dna is mutated in
some way, along with my 3 year old son (he was just turning 1 when the
disaster occurred). but one day, when they are much older, and have
family's of their own, if they marry with other japanese people in the
area, it's very likely that their children will have some sort of
mutation, which makes me very sad.

i guess that what im getting
at is that we wont start seeing the truly devastating effects until
several years later. the japanese government has doomed its own
citizens. but the japanese have this sort of attitude, where they say
"shoganai" (nothing you can do) to things like this. its a very complex
situation.

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AFP

February 03, 201310:22PM

In this March 15, 2011 photo,
smoke rises from the badly damaged Unit 3 reactor, left, next to the
Unit 4 reactor covered by an outer wall at the Fukushima Dai-ichi
nuclear complex. Picture: AP Source: AP

JAPANESE police have questioned a former head of the nuclear safety
body regarding possible criminal charges over the Fukushima nuclear
crisis.

Prosecutors have interviewed Haruki Madarame, former chief of the
Nuclear Safety Commission who was responsible for giving the government
technical advice about the crisis, national broadcaster NHK quoted
sources as saying.
It said Mr Madarame appeared voluntarily for
questioning and was apparently asked to explain how he dealt with the
disaster triggered by the March 2011 tsunami.
Fukushima residents
have filed a criminal complaint with prosecutors against Mr Madarame on
suspicion of professional negligence which resulted in deaths and
injuries, the public broadcaster said.
The complaint alleges that
Mr Madarame was responsible for a delay in announcing data predicting
how radiation would spread from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power
plant, it said.